Following several high-profile civilian deaths at the hands of police officers, many Americans have called for the mandatory use of body cameras by law enforcement as a means of curbing the excessive use of force and providing clear accounts of officers’ actions. Here are some of the pros and cons of body cameras for police officers:
PROS
- Provides accurate record of where police were when they turned off their body camera
- Helps to reinstate trust between Americans and surveillance
- Unlimited footage of police officers breathing heavily during a foot chase
- Turning camera askew allows officers to record beatings with stylish Dutch angles
- More things to watch
- Finally gives Americans glimpse at what it’s like to turn on that siren and gun it straight through a red light
CONS
- Major invasion of privacy for police officer and man he has in chokehold
- Costs money that could be used on machine guns and armored vehicles
- Police brutality might lose its mystique
- Those could be anyone’s arms bashing citizen with nightstick
- Distracting to officers who must now shift focus to cinematography and mise en scène
- Is still only going to be the irrefutable video evidence’s word against the police officer’s
Ahh, now I can tell it’s Friday. Thanks Admin.
Bob.
Elsewhere, I saw a serious (?) article claiming that body cams came with problems, basically because police departments would have to keep them charged, download the footage, and spend time reviewing the footage. It was such total BS. The Onion version is essentially the same story, except intended in jest.
That was funny. There will prove to be privacy issues with body cams. Cops called to a domestic disturbance will have naked infants walk through the camera’s field. Cameras will capture things in suspects’ homes that could arguably prejudice a jury (a Farrakhan poster on the wall or whatever). At this point, though, the need for body cams is greater. Policies will have to be designed to prevent unwarranted distribution of the footage, especially by other cops wanting to ogle 16 year old girls caught on camera.
I posted this on the cold blooded murder thread, but it fits here too… damn lucky the states costumed goons didn’t kill this guy. …it’s disturbing the sheriff said …, but there was struggle ( the suspect almost appeared to be resisting ) and an internal investigation guaranteed to go nowhere is being launched….and the fat gang members became dehydrated after expending so much energy breaking various parts of the defenseless suspects body , which everyone should shed a tear over…come on, people !..HEROES got dehydrated HERE!
Sheriff Orders Immediate Internal Investigation Into Arrest Seen on “Disturbing” Video
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Man-on-Stolen-Horse-Stunned-by-Sheriffs-Deputies-in-IE-299250951.html
We are NOT civilians! We ARE citizens!
Persnickity said:
“I saw a serious (?) article claiming that body cams came with problems, basically because police departments would have to keep them charged, download the footage, and spend time reviewing the footage.”
No problem. Require that a new batch of public jury pool members keep them charged, downloaded and archived each week. You get a new batch of potential jurors every week so burnout and pay will not be an issue. Hell, have prisoners fill this role. They have nothing but time and an extreme, deeply personal desire to see LEO held to account. No need to watch any footage unless an issue arises. Build every camera so it cannot be turned off and build them so that it takes multiple blows with a hammer to break them.
I recently had an experience with a police body camera incident. I’ve had many experiences with police car camera contacts. And, like you TBP readers and commentators, I’ve seen police incident videos from around the country.
My opinion is that having a camera record every police contact is best for all.
Police have more jerks and threats to deal with than ever before. On the other hand, police officer selection and training hasn’t kept up with the problems. With more access to weaponry and technology, less time seems to be devoted to training police to be tactful.
Decades ago I rarely saw a thuggish cop. Now forcefully taking control of the situation seems to be the police approach.
As I’ve written before, if contacted by the police, keep your hands in sight, keep your smart mouth from snapping, and follow directions. If abused, you can always seek redress later.
I/S -No problem
Famous last words…no problem , we’ll just subsidize all those unemployed from off-shoring and then bail-out all those cash strapped corporations suffering from the effects of the under-employed consumers ..joy…joy..and double joy…no problem
give a low life psychotic piece of human filth a badge and the power to abuse his fellow man and the modern police state is we get. Fuck you SSS.
Ok NOW the Mother Fuckers have gone too far.
http://youtu.be/8KIKUEjn3Z0
Sorry, I must retract my statement posted above. The Cops were most definitely wrong, the guy stole the horse, they should have shot his ass out of the saddle, ran up and put one in his head. They get a pass from me on this one. You don’t fuck with another mans horse.
Saw that story a few hours ago. It’s white on white and nobody died so I doubt it will make MSM rotation. I hope it does though, the more of this shit that gets exposed in a short span of time the better! The “citizens” as ragman so rightly said, need to turn up the heat!
That dude that took the beating was one tough mother! Even after being tazed, kicked in the head balls and asshole he kept his hands behind his back without being cuffed. That right there will be part of the copfuks undoing I hope.
I couldn’t understand why the camera man kept zooming way out on the raw video. Is there video of the guy being hauled out of there? Did he walk out or was he carried?
Here’s how good men of the community use to deal with a horse thief, they put them in the ground.
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Sensetti, key word being “alleged”, just like the guy being shit stomped in the desert allegedly was riding a stolen horse and was beaten within a shadow of deaths door for allegedly resisting armrest.
If we want to hire vicious gangs of low intellect to patrol our streets, that fine, but we must also be prepared to accept the blow back that comes when we the policed get enough of the brutal tactics deployed by the state’s organized gangs in keeping that ever growing fragile peace.